Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Johnson stand on a U.S. Meridian and Latitude marker on a steep slope of Griffith Mountain near Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Charles Johnson wears a suit and hat and has a mustache. Marie Eckland Johnson wears a fur coat and a hat decorated with a feather. Letters incised into the stone marker read: "U.S. Meridian and Latitude Mark" "Explorations West of the 100th Meridian" "War Department."

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